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With Alibaba said to be entering the U.S. market, there’s been a lot of speculation regarding what kind of player the Chinese e-commerce juggernaut will be. Regardless, even though Alibaba is China’s (and by some measures, the world’s) largest online commerce company, a survey of over 3,500 online buyers over ... more...

LOS ANGELES, June 24, 2014 (ADOTAS) – Insights powered by Bizrate, a division of Shopzilla’s new Connexity, has surveyed over 4,000 online buyers and found that among those who are not solely Amazon online buyers, there is very little definitive interest in buying its newly introduced Fire smartphone – and ... more...

ADOTAS – Amazon yesterday became the first ecommerce player to introduce its own smartphone: Fire.
What sets fire apart from other such devices are two new breakthrough technologies: Dynamic Perspective and Firefly. Dynamic Perspective uses a new sensor system to respond to the way the user holds, views, and moves the ... more...

ADOTAS — Last week Alibaba launched its first direct-to-consumer online shop in the United States at 11Main, a curated marketplace that will offer “one-of-a-kind items, not available at mass merchants and other large e-commerce sites.” Though most of us don’t have the resources of an Alibaba-sized parent company, we can ... more...

ADOTAS – Today, App Annie released its latest monthly Apps Index, providing data from April 2014 on the top apps and publishers in the global app market across all app categories, excluding games.
Notable findings:
Amazon joined the Top Publishers rankings in April following the acquisition of Comics’ comiXology early in the ... more...

NEW YORK, April 17, 2014 (ADOTAS) – MAZ, whose publishing platform powers over 750 apps across the Apple’s iTunes Store, Google Play, and Amazon’s Appstore, announced today that they have partnered with USA TODAY Sports Weekly to create its apps across all mobile and tablet devices.
The first digital edition of USA TODAY Sports ... more...

ADOTAS – Since its inception, Amazon.com has been known as one of the first highly successful, “big box” retailers online – and while it is still one of the “big boys,” times sure have changed.
Fortunately, Amazon is taking steps to change with those times. With physical products like books, CDs ... more...

ADOTAS – When Google purchased Wildfire for a cool $350 million back in 2012, social advertising was in its heyday and the industry was still trying to figure out a clear way to convert earned media into paid. Wildfire, Buddy Media and Virtue were red-hot companies that year, helping brands ... more...

ADOTAS – “Big Data” has been a popular buzzword in business circles for the past several years, but when most people hear the term, if they know what it means at all, they picture tech-savvy analysts using highly specialized tools to handle unimaginably huge datasets to deliver arcane business intelligence. ... more...

ADOTAS – The convergence of one-to-one and programmatic advertising will disrupt the practices and organizations of advertisers. We all recognize that mobile, video and online advertising sometimes live in silos — even though they shouldn’t — but those divides are nothing compared to the gap between advertising and CRM.
Every ... more...